Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> African American & Black - Historical

Ocoee! is a powerful coming-of-age story that bears witness to an event that occurred in a small town near Orlando, Florida during the 1920 Presidential election. In response to African Americans attempting to exercise their right to vote, a mob of white supremacists and Ku Klux Klan members went on a rampage through a black neighborhood, killing a number of people and burning many homes. The survivors, nearly 500 of them, fled, never to return. For more than 60 years, Ocoee became a white-only town.

This fictionalized account chronicles the massacre and the events...

Melba Blue Jay, sixteen, scrambling up a snow-filled mountain path, her knife at a child’s throat. Archie Chung at the helm of the South Pacific Belle, foremast snapped like a toothpick, barreling toward a coral reef. Spindly Lydia Freeman, skin the color of dark ale, feeding tea made of birch bark to an Irish murderess. Zeke Roxxmott teetering at three hundred feet on the five-inch ledge of his penthouse, bent on a flawless destruction.

Adventurers, inextricably linked by a bloodline - and an Indian’s coin.

Sor Lucrezia di Marchionni, a Florentine nun, leads a mission to Hayti, Spain's first American colony, two decades after its 'discovery' by Christopher Columbus. But she also has a secret assignment - to find out if the passage through to Asia depicted on a world map published by the German cartographer Martin WaldseemUller actually exists. On the island, she meets up with Fray Hugo de Montenegro, a Dominican monk who has been there for several years and has been collecting accounts of Spanish atrocities. Their investigations bring them into contact with TaIno freedom fighters and their...

Thirty years ago, Gramma Tubman and Poppa George barely escaped an FBI assault at their hiding place in Louisiana. Since then, they?ve recuperated and only become more focused on retaliation. The Society of Slave Masters, the White Supremacist organization that ordered the assault, is due for some upheaval, and Gramma and Poppa are just the activists for the job.

Influenced by ideologies of the Spirits in the Shadows?a Black Militant organization formulated by her defiant ancestors?Gramma Tubman educates her grandchildren in the ways of radical upheaval in the hopes of pushing prison...